too real
chrisbtoo
joined 2 weeks ago
I just wish there were a legal way to stream BBC content (i.e. iPlayer) outside the UK. I'd gladly pay the licence fee (as a non-resident) or more, to be able to watch all their content without having to grub around on a million different services.
Whether there'd be enough people in the same boat to be able to make up a $200M shortfall, I don't know, but it seems like it could be a pretty big untapped market.
Years ago — late 90s — I used to travel to Vermont from the UK on business. Because of the time difference I'd often wake up at ~3:30 in the morning and since there was very little to do in a hotel room in Burlington, I'd put The Weather Channel on.
Quite often they'd report on "snow coming down from Canada", or "frigid air coming down from Canada", and I always thought it was weird how they seemed to be subtly blaming another country for weather phenomena.
Dunno why I thought of that.
Anyway, electric vans. Cool.
I'm boycotting this round.
Good luck to all the teams, and I sincerely hope nobody is deported, imprisoned or shot for daring to have been born outside the USA.
First time I ever went there (1997) I landed at Boston Logan Airport, and a guy in plain clothes, but with a gun, stopped everyone who was departing the plane and repeatedly yelled out "American citizens this way, foreigners line up against the wall!".
I never once felt safe going there, and was always relieved when I got out alive. Decided a few years ago that I'll never set foot in the US again.
That seems like a good move.
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I dread to think how much energy and effort is wasted shipping these items back and forth when someone buys something online and then returns it.
It's worse than that — a lot of returned stuff ends up in landfill because it's not worth the cost of re-stocking it.
Great race today! Grats to both Marquez brothers and also great job to team VR46!
Hopefully Bez is OK after that early wipe.
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Can't relate.